| Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City Contributor(s): Anderson, Elijah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393320782 ISBN-13: 9780393320787 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: This incisive book examines the code of decency, violence, and moral life of the inner city, and how it is a response to the lack of jobs, stigma of race, and rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 303 |
| LCCN: 98036800 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.47" W x 8.24" (0.85 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules--based largely on an individual's ability to command respect--is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anderson, Elijah: - Elijah Anderson holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia. |